[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Nov 29 15:19:07 CET 2010

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:58:05 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote: > I agree that Python should make it easy for the programmer to get > numerical values of native numeric strings, but it's not at all clear > to me that there is any point to having float() recognize them by > default.

Indeed, as someone else suggested earlier in the thread, supporting non-ASCII digits sounds more like a job for the locale module than for the builtin types.

Not sure, really. For example, "\d" in a regular expression will match all Unicode digits, unless you pass the re.ASCII flag. The C locale mechanism generally does a poor job of supporting what MS seems to call "culture-specific" characteristics.

Regards

Antoine.

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